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Comment on Unsurprisingly, The “Disparate Impact” Test Reveals That Brexit (And Everything Else) Is Sexist by Leftist Shaming Of Conservative White Women Is Anti-Feminist – Semi-Partisan Politics https://semipartisansam.com/2018/07/27/unsurprisingly-the-disparate-impact-test-reveals-that-brexit-and-everything-else-is-sexist/#comment-26345
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:51:14 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76110#comment-26345[…] be it arguments about democracy, governance, self-determination or immigration. No, Remainers reduce women to the role of passive consumers of government services who should be expected to vote … rather than entertaining any highfalutin notions about what is best for the future of the country […]

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Comment on Is Brexit Sexist? by Leftist Shaming Of Conservative White Women Is Anti-Feminist – Semi-Partisan Politics https://semipartisansam.com/2018/06/18/is-brexit-sexist/#comment-26344
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:51:11 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=75937#comment-26344[…] that leaving the European Union is a plot of the patriarchy designed to “hurt women”, and should thus be opposed on feminist grounds. Continuity Remainers (those who want to overturn or disregard the result of the 2016 referendum) […]

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Comment on Feminists Against Brexit, The Patriarchy’s Latest Cunning Tool Of Oppression by Leftist Shaming Of Conservative White Women Is Anti-Feminist – Semi-Partisan Politics https://semipartisansam.com/2016/07/05/feminists-against-brexit-the-patriarchys-latest-cunning-tool-of-oppression/#comment-26343
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:51:08 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=39051#comment-26343[…] the establishment Remainers trying to thwart Brexit increasingly resorting to panicked cries that leaving the European Union is a plot of the patriarchy designed to “hurt women”, and should thus be opposed on feminist grounds. Continuity Remainers (those who want to overturn […]

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Comment on Mocking Grenfell Tower On Bonfire Night Is Appalling, But Should Not Be Criminal by MP https://semipartisansam.com/2018/11/06/mocking-grenfell-tower-on-bonfire-night-is-appalling-but-should-not-be-criminal/#comment-26258
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:24:59 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76317#comment-26258Thing is, nobody forces anybody to watch or read things which might upset them. If I had links to Grenfell Tower I would simply not have watched this – it was clear enough what to expect.

People have become too prone to being offended, and to expecting the state to protect them from anything and everything. Social media magnifies that and encourages mass public hand-wringing. I remember various sick jokes about famous people who had died, and the manner of their deaths, but in pre social media, pre-PC days, we all just thought “that’s a bit tasteless”, and moved on with our lives, aware that there are idiots in the world, but their idiocy doesn’t really matter…

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Comment on Mocking Grenfell Tower On Bonfire Night Is Appalling, But Should Not Be Criminal by MP https://semipartisansam.com/2018/11/06/mocking-grenfell-tower-on-bonfire-night-is-appalling-but-should-not-be-criminal/#comment-26255
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:07:56 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76317#comment-26255I agree entirely with the author. Britain is now a place I’m embarrased to have been born in. I’ve seen this video described as ‘horrific’. Actually it’s just a bunch of idiots doing what they do best – being silly and recording it for their five minutes of fame. If this is horrific, what words are left to describe Auschwitz, Belsen, Hiroshima, Syria?

I’m more worried by the fact that Britain, America, and other western ‘democracies’ seem to be increasingly governed by mob-rule, courtesy of social media. If enough people shout loudly, the police are deployed to investigate borderline crimes, and even non-crimes. What’s more, in a country of fifty million people, 100,000 professional offendees wield power far beyond their numbers. The thing is, people rarely take to their keyboards to say “actually, I’m not offended”. I’d love to know how many people would call this ‘horrific’ incident a storm in a teacup.

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Comment on Mocking Grenfell Tower On Bonfire Night Is Appalling, But Should Not Be Criminal by thelyniezian https://semipartisansam.com/2018/11/06/mocking-grenfell-tower-on-bonfire-night-is-appalling-but-should-not-be-criminal/#comment-26237
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:06:22 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76317#comment-26237I have certain sympathies for this argument but at the same time do consider that where there is likely to be severe psychological harm inflicted, as there will be for those who were victims of or gruieving for the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster, does that constitute a limit to freedom of expression? There is a line between, say, insulting someone or attacking (within reason) someone’s beliefs and openly making the situation of those already traumatised by the event worse. Or are we arguing psychological harm is not as bad as physical harm which is in pretty much any country prosecutable under the law?

I do think that the restrictions on freedom of expression in Britain go too far however. There are some things which however bad ought to not be matters for the law.

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Comment on Mocking Grenfell Tower On Bonfire Night Is Appalling, But Should Not Be Criminal by britishawakening https://semipartisansam.com/2018/11/06/mocking-grenfell-tower-on-bonfire-night-is-appalling-but-should-not-be-criminal/#comment-26232
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:41:53 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76317#comment-26232I have not seen the video nor do I wish to but I suspect the involvement of the Police is more about an increasingly authoritarian state flexing its muscles and making an example of some plebs pour encourager les autres.
People need to reflect on the direction of travel here. Thirty years ago the same people would have still been condemned in the public arena but it would have been seen as ludicrous for the Police to get involved.

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Comment on People’s Vote Celebrities Burnish Their Woke Credentials By Giving False Hope To Remainers by Clive Lord https://semipartisansam.com/2018/10/13/peoples-vote-celebrities-burnish-their-woke-credentials-by-giving-false-hope-to-remainers/#comment-26204
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:21:17 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=76287#comment-26204At least Dave Chapman’s supportive reply includes some (doubtfully relevant) facts.
Boston voted Leave 3 -1 because austerity (nothing to do with Brexit) had made them hostile to immigrants. They may be right that Brexit has already deterred immigrants, and will continue to do so, therefore emotionally they still blame the wrong culprit.
If the Irish border figured in the pre-referendum debate, I missed it. My original reason for voting leave looks more realistic every time this crops up: it is in the interests of transnational companies to split elected governments.
Your comments would have greater force if you had not deserted the ship.

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Comment on Political Tribalism, Brexit And The Liberalist Insurgency by Shrill Bias & False Equivalencies – COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE https://semipartisansam.com/2018/03/24/political-tribalism-brexit-and-the-liberalist-insurgency/#comment-26113
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 06:25:40 +0000http://semipartisansam.com/?p=75768#comment-26113[…] elites stubbornly refusing to learn from the mistakes which brought the populist rebuffs of 2016 (good in the case of Brexit, much less so with Trump) now I see the journalistic class – who are very much part of that elite […]